Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
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Pharaoh (1894–1895)Boleslaw Prus
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With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the caprice of the winds and the folly of the pilot, alike ignorant of the place of her departure or destination.
Jean-Baptiste Say
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.
Adam Smith
We were dragged into folly by the Americans over Iran. We were dragged into folly by the Americans over Afghanistan. Neither national interest nor moral obligation requires us to be dragged by them into folly over Poland.
Enoch Powell
It is the initial letters of the four points of the compass that make the word "news," and he must understand that news is that which collies from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication, and not news.
Benjamin Disraeli
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
Adam Smith
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